Author of the award-winning Put Your Best Foot Forward series

I Saw God
Limited First Edition

This simple folk tale challenges us to examine not how we see God, but how we see each other. It is a fable about perception, communication and diversity.

Whether we look across borders, across the street or across the pew, Americans are challenged to understand people whose cultures are very different from our own. The Put Your Best Foot Forward books are informational guides to understanding those cultures. I Saw God goes further and provokes the head and heart to make that leap.

If we are going to do business between people or nations, we need mutual understanding and tolerance. I Saw God is a tool for dialogue in offices, boardrooms and classrooms. It is about Beirut and Belfast, Minneapolis and Manila. It is about our workplaces, neighborhoods and families.

This timely story is beautifully illustrated and makes a perfect holiday gift for family, friends and business colleagues.

 What others are saying about I Saw God:

I Saw God is a lovely work. It is straightforward and simple but not simplistic. It is a pleasure to read.

Patrick Henry, Executive Director, Institute For Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John’s University.


I Saw God is a timely book given the many conflicts over religion in the world right now. It is a parable for our times with a message that can be enjoyed and understood by people young and old.

Patricia Guthmann Haresch, MDiv., Student, Andover Newton Theological School and Candidate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry


As a Hindu and world traveler, I believe that I Saw God explores the diversity of religion at a time when it is important to seek common ground. Mary has powerfully illustrated that the Love of God is lost when people of any religion develop hatred. I Saw God vividly depicts the spiritual adventure of love and tolerance as a way to bring humanity to common understanding.

Nithyanantha J. Sevanthinathan, Human Explorer/International Student Advisor at Minnesota State University


I Saw God offers parents and teachers an opportunity to speak and listen, as our children encounter others who hear and speak with different ears and eyes This book illustrates the consequences of fearing rather than embracing differences.

Rev. Margo E. Maris, Priest and nursery school teacher.


I Saw God is wonderful reading for children and adults, religious and non-religious, saints and sinners, and philosophers and skeptics.

Howard M. Guthmann, Former Chair of St. Paul Board of Education and Indianhead Council of the Boy Scouts of America.


As tragic events play out in the new millennium, I Saw God calls the reader to confront extremism in ourselves and our traditions. This simple story, wonderfully told, awakens us to our self-created differences so that we may once again focus on community and unity.

The Reverend Canon Mark Wm. Kelm, Canon Liturgist and Family Pastor, St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral